Swired Cranberry Cheesecake

Crust: 1/2 cup sugar 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa 40 chocolate graham cracker sticks (about 3 ounces) 1 tablespoon butter, melted 1 large egg white Cooking spray Topping: 1 1/2 cups sugar 1/2 cup orange juice 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice 1 (12-ounce) package fresh cranberries 2 teaspoons grated lemon rind 1 teaspoon grated orange rind [...]

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Maple Apple Pie Filling

6 c. peeled, sliced apples (Northern Spy and Cortland are best) 2-5 T. Vermont maple syrup   (riper apples are sweeter and you will need less syrup) 3 T. flour 1 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 cup apple cider 1 T. butter Mix together apples, flour, cinnamon, and salt and fill bottom shell.  Drizzle syrup [...]

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Whole Wheat Pie Crust

2 c. whole wheat pastry flour 1/2 tsp. salt 3/4 c. of butter or shortening (or 1/2 of each) 4-6 T. cold water Mix flour and salt together.   Mix in butter and/or shortening with fingers or pastry cutter (mix should be crumbly).  Add cold water.  form pastry dough into a ball and refrigerate for 30 [...]

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Vodka Pie Crust via Smitten Kitchen

I love Smitten Kitchen’s website. There are SO many food bloggers, recipe writers, restaurant critiquers out there that it is really easy to get lost. Smitten Kitchen is one of the best written with the best recipes hands down. Her recipes are not fussy, and everyone I have tried has been a big hit. Because [...]

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Dream Pie

2 envelopes DREAM WHIP whipped topping mix 2 3/4 c. cold milk 1 tsp vanilla 2 packages (4 serving size) Jell-O Instant pudding and pie filling, any flavor 1 baked 9 inch pie shell, cooled or 1 packaged graham cracker or chocolate flavor crust. BEAT whipped topping mix with one cup milk and the vanilla, [...]

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Honeyed Rhubarb Pie

Country Cookbook-Vickie (with a smiley face!) 4 c. (1/2″ pices) rhubarb 1 1/4 c. sugar 6 T flour 1/4 tsp salt 2 tsp. grated lemon peel 1/3 c. honey 4-5 drops red food coloring 2 T. margarine combine rhubarb, sugar, flour, salt, and lemon peel; mix well. Blend in honey and food color, let stand [...]

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Chocolate Crunch Pie

1 pkg JELL-O chocolate flavor instant pudding and pie filling 1 cup cold milk 3 1/2 c. COOL WHIP non-dairy whipped topping, thawed 20 chocolate sandwich cookies, ground 1 1/2 c. “Rocks”: Use any combo of choc. chips, peanut butter chips, chopped peanuts, granola bar chunks 1 chocolate crumb crust Prepare pudding mix with one [...]

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Squash Pie

1 bowl squash salt nutmeg cinnamon ginger 1 cup sugar 1 egg milk — Seriously Edna. Why do you write this stuff down???

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Mince Pie

Package mince meat break into small pieces go by directions on package of how much water to add. Add to that 1 T. flour, 1 c. raisins, a little more sugar to your taste, let simmer until well blended and let cool. If to thick after mixture is cool add a little more cold water. [...]

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